10 Things In Tech You Need To Know, September 15

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		Tech Entertainment Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Politics Europe Video Latest Thursday, September 15, 2011 Advertisement Good morning! Here's the news: Facebook is pushing back its IPO plans until late 2012 because Mark Zuckerberg wants to keep his team focused on product not pay-outs. Twitter is about to get serious with advertising, and trying to make money. Its big plan: targeting sponsored tweets at users and possibly using display ads on its site. Now that he's no longer a part of AOL, venture capitalist, and TechCrunch founder, Michael Arrington is going to launch his own personal blog. Google bought another 1,203 patents from IBM to arm itself for battles with Apple and Microsoft. At Microsoft's analyst meeting Steve Ballmer confirmed what was already pretty obvious: Microsoft doesn't have any big new products on the horizon to generate growth. It will keep banging out its 10% annual growth through a combination of Windows, and stealing share in other markets. Andreessen Horowitz, along with Silver Lake partners, DST and a number of other big names are all taking a look at Yahoo and thinking about buying it. We're still confused about why Google bought Zagat: Marissa Mayer just says it was "a lot of value for users," but also says that Zagat won't be a part of Places. After delaying, Groupon is now aiming for an October-November time frame for its IPO. Spotify is about to get some serious competition: MOG is offering its own desktop streaming of free music starting today. The winner of TechCrunch Disrupt is Shaker, a social game that replicates hanging out in a bar, but uses your Facebook data. Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.careerrrwyld@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the SAI RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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